[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 177 (Wednesday, November 16, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1157-E1158]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING JOHN CLAUSER

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                          HON. MARK DeSAULNIER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, November 16, 2022

  Mr. DeSAULNIER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize John Clauser 
for receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics.
  John Clauser was born in Pasadena, California and obtained his 
Bachelor of Science in Physics at the California Institute of 
Technology. John then went to Columbia University in New York City, 
where he received both a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in 
Physics. He then came back to the Bay Area to work at the University of 
California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is current a resident of 
California's 11th Congressional District.
  While at UC Berkeley, John carried out the first experimental test of 
the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt Bell Theorem predictions, which was the 
first experimental observation of a violation of a Bell Inequality. The 
Bell Inequalities was a mathematical relationship that would be 
satisfied by a hidden variable theory in which measurement of one 
particle would not instantly affect the properties of the other 
particle, which John became interested in as he began experimental 
testing. John worked with Stuart Freedman to publish the first 
experimental test of the Bell Inequalities in 1972, and their results 
showed a clear violation of

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the Bell Inequality in accordance with those predicted by quantum 
mechanics.
  In 1991, John came back to UC Berkeley as a research scientist for 
the physics department while he was a faculty scientist at Lawrence 
Livermore National Laboratory, where he carried out further tests of 
Bell's Theorem. John teamed up with three other physicists--Michael 
Horne, Abner Shimony, and Richard Hold--to further propose an 
experimental test of Bell's Theorem.
  John was named one of the recipients of the Reality Foundation Prize 
in 1982 and the Wolf Prize in 2010 and was named the Thompson-Reuters 
Citation Laureate in Physics in 2011. Dr. Clauser was honored with the 
Nobel Prize in Physics on October 4, 2022, for the initial Bell 
Inequality experiment and the research that stemmed from it. The 
original groundbreaking experiment in 1972 along with the more recent 
research confirmed that quantum mechanics is correct and paved the way 
for quantum computers, quantum networks, and quantum encrypted 
communication.
  Please join me in congratulating Dr. Clauser on this incredible 
accomplishment and his contributions to Physics.

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